The system was self-perpetuating because the women came to accept all the restraints as necessary to achieve status, consequently to be imposed on their own daughters.

• 这个体系之所以不曾消亡是因为女性群体接受这样的观点：所有的拘束都是彰显身份所必须的，因此她们自己的女儿们也在劫难逃。